The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice,and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all legal matters. The attorney general is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States.
John Henry Durham is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut from 2018 to 2021. By April 2019,the Trump administration assigned him to investigate the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections,and in October 2020 he was appointed special counsel for the Department of Justice on that matter.
Rod Jay Rosenstein is an American attorney who served as the 37th United States deputy attorney general from April 2017 until May 2019. Prior to his appointment,he served as a United States attorney for the District of Maryland. At the time of his confirmation as deputy attorney general in April 2017,he was the longest-serving U.S. attorney. Rosenstein had also been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2007,but his nomination was never considered by the U.S. Senate.
Dana James Boente ( Bent-Ë) is an American attorney who served as General Counsel of the FBI from January 2018 to 2020,United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from September 2013 to January 2018,and as the Acting United States Attorney General from January to February 2017. He also served as acting assistant attorney general for the National Security Division of the United States Department of Justice. On October 27,2017,Boente announced he would resign from the Department of Justice after a successor is in place. On January 23,2018,Boente was named general counsel to the FBI by the director Christopher A. Wray,filling the vacancy after James Baker's reassignment to another part of the bureau.
David Michael Dunavant is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee from 2017 to 2021. He formerly served as the District Attorney General for the 25th Judicial District in Tennessee from 2006 to 2017.
Brian J. Kuester is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma from 2017 to 2021. He previously served as the District Attorney for District 27 in Oklahoma.
Bryan Douglas Schroder is an American former military officer and attorney who served as the United States attorney for the District of Alaska from 2017 to 2021.
Matthew G.T. Martin is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina from 2018 to 2021. He previously served as associate general counsel for Duke Energy. Martin was a partner at the law firm of Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell &Jernigan,where he focused on complex litigation. Prior to joining Smith Anderson,he practiced with the law firm of Covington &Burling. On November 9,2017,he was confirmed by the United States Senate to be the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. On February 8,2021,he along with 55 other Trump-era attorneys were asked to resign. On February 22,he submitted his resignation,effective February 28.
R. Andrew Murray is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina from 2017 to 2021. He previously served as the elected District Attorney of Mecklenburg County,North Carolina. Prior to becoming the District Attorney of Mecklenburg County in 2011,Murray was an Assistant District Attorney in Mecklenburg County and a criminal defense attorney and managing partner in a North Carolina law firm. He enlisted in the United States Coast Guard in 1980 and was later commissioned as an officer in the United States Coast Guard Reserve. In 2016,he retired as a captain after 35 years of service.
Scott W. Brady is an American attorney who was the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2021. Before becoming the U.S. Attorney,he was the head of litigation for Federated Investors. Brady was previously an Assistant United States Attorney in Pittsburgh,from 2004 to 2010,where he prosecuted white collar crime,violent crime and drug trafficking offenses. He was also an associate at Jones Day and at Reed Smith,where his practice focused on multi-district litigation,white collar criminal matters and internal investigations. Brady is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Scott C. Blader is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin until February 26,2021. Prior to his service as a United States Attorney,Blader served as the District Attorney of Waushara County from 2007 to 2017. Blader was named State of Wisconsin Prosecutor of the Year in 2015 and Wisconsin Association of Homicide Detectives Prosecutor of the Year in 2014. He was previously an associate attorney with Blader Law Office,where he focused on criminal litigation.
William Chadwick Lamar is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi from 2017 to 2021.
Robert M. Duncan Jr. is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2017 to 2021.
Joseph Patrick Kelly is an American attorney and politician who is the 42nd lieutenant governor of Nebraska,since 2023. He served as the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska from 2018 to 2021. He formally serves as chief of the criminal division for the attorney general of Nebraska.
Robert Kyoung Hur is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland from 2018 to 2021. Previously,he also served as the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General with the U.S. Department of Justice. On January 12,2023,Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur to the role of Special Counsel responsible for investigating President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents found at Biden's home and at the Penn Biden Center.
Brian T. Moran is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington from 2019 to 2021. He was previously of counsel at the law firm Orrick,Herrington &Sutcliffe in Seattle,Washington.
Peter G. Strasser is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 2018 to 2021. Prior to becoming the U.S. Attorney,he was a partner at the New Orleans office of Chaffe McCalle.
George Zachary Terwilliger is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from May 25,2018 to January 15,2021.
Mark Floyd Pomerantz is an American attorney. He is a member of the New York law firm Paul,Weiss,Rifkind,Wharton &Garrison,generally referred to as Paul,Weiss. In February 2021,he left that firm to assist with the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation into the finances of former president Donald Trump until his resignation from the case in February 2022.
John Luman Smith is an American attorney who has served in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) as an assistant United States Attorney,acting United States Attorney,and head of the department's Public Integrity Section. He was also the chief prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers,an international tribunal at The Hague tasked with investigating and prosecuting war crimes in the Kosovo War.
